Fate
By: Pamela Suvanna
Thirteen years of school, and then another four if you want to get somewhere. We all learn the same things, but we are all different people with different strengths. So can someone tell me why education became some thing our lives revolve around. How about the stuff in our books, is the history even true? Being raised in my own head, I believe school is half a lie. We talk about our history and their history, but what if there was more behind it? And not even the teachers would know what really happened because they learned the same things.
That's why society is a mess. We sit in class being taught what is wrong, what is right. By the same people that are apart of the generation of adults that make up our economy. Our suffering economy. Never once did a teacher asked what we think about the history books, the many ways to prove a triangle or the way a plant lives. On a test, we're either wrong or right but what if some of what to be heard of our own theories? They say the world is forever changing; they just don't encourage it in school. Things are simply either wrong or right. Then there's the issue that societylistens to what society talks. People can't take the time to judge something on their own but, in their heads they agree to the majority of this society. The same society being brought up by our government. This is also the same government that keeps me wondering. The government that encourages education, yet tuition fees rise up every year. The same governement that encourages peace, but endorses war. The government that advertises the risks of tobacco, yet my father is taking seven minutes of his life away from me every time he lights one.
So i'm in class today just asking, "why?" Why did i learn how to read at age four, and kept my streak of straight A's throughout all of elementary? Why was I working so hard to keep my honors classes all throughout middle school? And why am i sitting in class today learning about proving shapes or the government that doesn't seem to make sense to me? Just when in my life am I going to need to know how to solve an inequality while i'm grocery shopping? And just when in my life will I need to know who Joseph McCoy was during changing a diaper for my future newborn?
So to the stubborn parents and the strict teachers please trade places with us as I speak for all. Sitting in our seats, will it take you back to your past? Remember that in every class you didn't speak, but in choir you sing your lungs out? Or when you had a 48 percent in math, but in english you wrote with your life for that 90? We are forced to have the same abilities, perfect the same skills. We are obligated to be the same things, to know what is wrong or right. To believe what is said at school, what is said with in society? As a kid with beweilderment, I want to know why if you get bad grades you are stupid. We were built and structured uniquely as individuals yet taught as a whole. As if we all had the same gifts God had given to each of us. Though knowledge is always good for you it won't determine destiny. And although I have good grades, education will NOT decide my fate. Take away the facts for two seconds and listen to what we struggling kids have to say. Stop telling us school is more important than something else. We have our own minds, and most of us have been controlled already to choose what to believe in. However, I won't let someone make me believe something just by stating facts. We all think differently, and I won't let anyone control my thoughts. Just like how I will NOT let education decide my fate.
That's why society is a mess. We sit in class being taught what is wrong, what is right. By the same people that are apart of the generation of adults that make up our economy. Our suffering economy. Never once did a teacher asked what we think about the history books, the many ways to prove a triangle or the way a plant lives. On a test, we're either wrong or right but what if some of what to be heard of our own theories? They say the world is forever changing; they just don't encourage it in school. Things are simply either wrong or right. Then there's the issue that societylistens to what society talks. People can't take the time to judge something on their own but, in their heads they agree to the majority of this society. The same society being brought up by our government. This is also the same government that keeps me wondering. The government that encourages education, yet tuition fees rise up every year. The same governement that encourages peace, but endorses war. The government that advertises the risks of tobacco, yet my father is taking seven minutes of his life away from me every time he lights one.
So i'm in class today just asking, "why?" Why did i learn how to read at age four, and kept my streak of straight A's throughout all of elementary? Why was I working so hard to keep my honors classes all throughout middle school? And why am i sitting in class today learning about proving shapes or the government that doesn't seem to make sense to me? Just when in my life am I going to need to know how to solve an inequality while i'm grocery shopping? And just when in my life will I need to know who Joseph McCoy was during changing a diaper for my future newborn?
So to the stubborn parents and the strict teachers please trade places with us as I speak for all. Sitting in our seats, will it take you back to your past? Remember that in every class you didn't speak, but in choir you sing your lungs out? Or when you had a 48 percent in math, but in english you wrote with your life for that 90? We are forced to have the same abilities, perfect the same skills. We are obligated to be the same things, to know what is wrong or right. To believe what is said at school, what is said with in society? As a kid with beweilderment, I want to know why if you get bad grades you are stupid. We were built and structured uniquely as individuals yet taught as a whole. As if we all had the same gifts God had given to each of us. Though knowledge is always good for you it won't determine destiny. And although I have good grades, education will NOT decide my fate. Take away the facts for two seconds and listen to what we struggling kids have to say. Stop telling us school is more important than something else. We have our own minds, and most of us have been controlled already to choose what to believe in. However, I won't let someone make me believe something just by stating facts. We all think differently, and I won't let anyone control my thoughts. Just like how I will NOT let education decide my fate.